Activity 8: Make Up Your Mind

Year Level: Years 6/7 – 8/9

Description: The activities in this section focus on the consequences of good and bad decision making. Lockie is faced with personal dilemmas and the activities develop an understanding of how and why he faces the consequences of his actions. It builds awareness of solutions and strategies that can be applied in real life.

Curriculum Study Areas: English, The Arts (Media), SOSE, Health and Physical Education, Personal and Social Capability

Topics/Themes:
Personal and social capability:	English and Media studies:
adolescence asking for help coping with challenges growing up identity and individuality masculinity peer pressure positive thinking relationships transition	adaptation appropriate and effective communication genre inter-textuality screen acting screen narrative signs, codes and conventions stereotyping

Aims:

• Examine issues of decision making portrayed and dealt with in Lockie Leonard.
• Analyse how pubescence affects decision making.
• Develop strategies to examine adolescent behaviour and consequences.
• Examine families and relationships through scene analysis.
• Interpret and evaluate how the TV series portrays emotional impact and sensitivity about community issues.
• Deconstruct the technical codes and signs in the production of the series.

Teaching and Learning Activities: Each strand contains activities organised in two main components:

• the 'discussing' component: students will use individual and group talk to come to understandings about the issues and characters and to explore the significance of those understandings (e.g. for their own lives).
• the 'doing' component: students will use their understandings and explorations in order to do something – for example, perform or tell a story, create a product, transform some aspect of the series.

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